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What Is Neuro-Linguistic Programming

Neuro-Linguistic Programming™ (NLP™) is defined as the study of the structure of subjective experience and what can be calculated from that and is predicated upon the belief that all behaviour has structure. People such as Virginia Satir, Milton Erickson and Fritz Perls had amazing results with their clients. They

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What Is Neuro-Linguistic Programming

Richard Bandler, co-creator of Neuro-Linguistic Programming. NLP is predicated upon the belief that all behavior has structure. It was created to develop new ways of understanding how verbal and nonverbal communication affect the human brain. NLP helps us to not only communicate better, but also learn how to gain cont…

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Difficult People: How to Deal with the Know-It-All

4 tips to help you keep sane with people who always ’know best’ An old tale has it that a man went to have a lion tattooed onto his back. “Ouch!” he screamed to the tattooist. “What are you doing?” “I’m drawing the lion’s mane,” replied the tattooist. “We don’t need a mane on this lion!” A lit

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Mental Health VS. Emotional Health-Are they related?

Mental Health VS. Emotional Health-Are they related? The direct correlation between mental health versus emotional health is a bit like talking about apples and oranges. While they might both appear to be identical, they are not actually the same thing at all. Most people would tend to describe themselves as either an

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How To Beat Necrophobia, The Irrational Fear Of Death

Many people suffer from necrophobia, the fear of death. This serious phobia affects thousands of sufferers and can arise regardless of a person's age, health, or personal beliefs. It is a fear that can have serious consequences on an individual's life. People are often afraid of anything that can be associated with dea

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Spiritual Fasting - A Secret Source of Power

Fasting can help you to renew your body and your mind and to deepen your awareness of the spirit within you. \ On a physical level, as your body gets rid of toxins and has the opportunity to renew and recharge itself, many even seemingly incurable health problems will simply dissolve. \ Dr. Oda Birchinger who

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Smoking Questionnaire

Therapeutic Questions For Quitting Smoking \ If you wish to give up smoking then this questionnaire can help. If you answer these questions honestly, they can reveal your subconscious drives to smoke – some of which you may not have realised! They can help you understand why you smoke, which can greatly enha

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Borderline Personality Disorder and Hypnotherapy

Borderline Personality Disorder is a mental illness that affects a person’s behaviour. BPD is considered by medical practitioners to be a severe psychiatric disorder. It is recognised as such by the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM IV).nnThe term “Borderline” was first coined by Adolph Stern in 1938. This name was used to describe patients who were on a ‘borderline’ between neurosis and psychosis. However, the symptoms o

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Top 10 Benefits of a Positive Attitude

What are the benefits of a positive attitude? When you develop a positive attitude, you have a certain power in your life - the power to find happiness. Although it can take some time to eliminate negative thinking and to develop a positive attitude, you'll find that there are many benefits to having a positive attitud

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Improve Your Eyesight The Natural Way

Many people's eyes begin deteriorating in later life. It seems that very little is done to help prevent this. Excuse my cynicism, but the opticians do absolutely nothing to help this. They merely keep testing peoples visions until they have deteriorated to a point where they deem they need glasses or contact lenses. Th

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How To Learn Hypnosis Online: Step By Step Guide

You can only learn so much from reading and watching others. At some point you will have to get your feet wet, so why not jump in at the deep end. This guide will not teach you to become the worlds greatest hypnotist all at once, but it will give you a simple 4 step process that will leave you as a novice hypnotist if you follow the instructions and perform them IRL. If you boil pretty much any hypnotic induction down, it will consist of these 4 steps: 1. Induce trance.rn2. D

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COPD: Beating Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease

Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD) is a long-term health problem that develops because of damage to the lungs. This acronym is utilized to identify three illnesses classified as COPD. These include emphysema, asthma, and chronic bronchitis. \ Asthma occurs when the body perceives something in the environ

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How To Write An Effective Hypnosis Script.

So You Want To Write Your Own Hypnosis Script... As hypnosis continues to gain popularity today, a lot of information about this act of heightened suggestibility can be found online. Central to a successful hypnosis session, however, is a strong hypnosis script. When a subject goes through a hypnotic state, it is up to

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Change A Habit In 28 Days

I will show you a very simple, but incredibly effective method of making permanent changes to your habits. \ Physiologists agree that it generally takes about 28 days to change a habit. 28 days of consciously trying to make a change should lead to a permanent change. You must live consciously for 4 weeks, deliber

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Subconscious Mind or Higher Self?

If hypnosis is extremely powerful and therapeutic in the most varied healing scenarios it is because it allows us to get into direct contact with our subconscious mind. The idea we have of the Subconscious has evolved greatly since Freud “discovered” it in the second half of the 19th century. Probably the most famo

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Chakra Healing With Sound

The meaning of the word Chakra in Sanskrit is \"spinning wheel of energy\". The chakras are energy centers within our bodies. Receiving and transmiting energy, each chakra is located within the physical body, at a major endocrine gland, and nerve bundle called a plexus. Each chakra is connected and associated with a di

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How I Healed from Psoriasis (Part 1)

I suffered from psoriasis from the age of 12. For nearly 12 years I tried all the medicines doctors gave me (including having my mother putting very sticky creams on my head in the evening, sleeping with a towel around my head and washing my hair before going to school). It was tough. It didn’t help, but in fact the

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Acrophobia And Hypnosis As A Cure

The fear of heights, also known as acrophobia, is a common phobia experienced by men and women of all ages. In fact, researchers suggest that to some extent, being afraid of heights is natural for most humans and animals. What turns an instinctive fear of heights into a phobia is that the fear is so severe that it is d

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How to Use Hidden Hypnotic Commands in Normal Conversation

In one of Edgar Alan Poe's short stories, a stolen letter was hidden out in the open on the desk of one of the characters. Because it was in an envelope from another writer, the searchers looked at it, but never thought to check inside the envelope. In a similar way, it is possible to hide hypnotic commands and suggestions inside of normal conversation. These commands go unnoticed by the conscious minds of a listener, but they are understood and acted upon as hypnotic command

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How To Speed Up Your Metabolism To Lose Weight

We have all heard it or even said it one time or another: \"I can't lose weight because of my metabolism.\" It is easy to blame our unwanted weight on an abstract idea like metabolism, but let's look at the real importance of metabolism - and better yet, how to get the most \"burn\" for your buck by recharging your met

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How To Improve Your Memory - Overcome Test Anxiety

Quite often, intelligent schoolchildren receive school grades that just do not appear to reflect their intelligence. These children do their schoolwork, take part in the classroom, but still get lousy test scores. Parents frequently misjudge lousy scores on exams as lack of study and preparation, but this frequently is

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How To Stop Thinking About Him or Her

Dreams can be extremely enlightening, so long as you attend to the emotional messages which they convey. A friend was recounting a dream the other day which told a familiar tale; she dreamed that she had bumped into her boyfriend who she had recently split up from, and he looked like a tanned and muscular God. You know

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Pendulum Dowsing - Easy To Learn Techniques

Pendulum Dowsing is a very fun and simple way to begin to measure energy fields. Since we all live in a world that is comprised of energy, and since we all have energy in and around our physical bodies, the ability to recognize and measure energy can be valuable and useful. In order to begin to ...Pendulum Dowsing is a

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Become Lucky

Luck is a state of mind. People who are lucky, people who think of themselves as lucky tend to think and behave in different ways than those who think of themselves as unlucky. \ Our thinking and acting may cause us to experience serendipitous events in some areas of our lives and to experience ...

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What Is Emotional Health?

A well-balanced emotional health and well-being is the positive condition of feeling emotionally strong and able to tackle the many challenges in our daily life. Every man, woman, boy and girl has at times felt the struggle in maintaining a good positive emotional well-being. There are many external and internal condit

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Top 10 Reasons to Stop Smoking Today

So you’re ready to quit smoking. It is important, as you prepare to stop smoking, to familiarize and remind yourself of the benefits. So, what happens when you stop smoking? The longer you quit smoking; benefits like the following will outshine your previous urges. Increased Health Benefits When You Quit Smokingr

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How to Market Your Hypnosis Web Site

You can have the best web site in the world, and it is highly likely that nobody is interested, unless you take steps to market your site. What many people who first enter the world of web business don’t realize is that a lot of hard work is required in order to create a successful web site.

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How To Completely Relax In Just Ten Minutes

A simple way to relax in ten minutes...this easy process can be used at any time of the day. It is particularly effective when going to bed if you suffer from insomnia, or when you first arrive home from work after a particularly stressful day. As with any relaxation techniques, the more you ...

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Future Life Progression: the Way Forward.

There are two very distinct types of future life progression: one that stretches into the far future, into our next existences, and one that explores the more limited (and closer) future in this life. A word of warning here: the future is only an endless number of possibilities. Every day and every minute we take decis

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Running Away From Reality

How does one run away from reality? You might say that you can turn a blind eye or deaf ear and simply neither see nor hear what is going on. Alternatively you might perhaps see what is happening but not allow yourself to feel any emotional response to the situation. You could see something that is happening but interp

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How NLP and Hypnosis can help manage Stress

How NLP and Hypnosis can help Manage Stress by Matthew Ferguson \ Modern life equals Modern stress, is there any way-out of here! \ Well, the answer lies in understanding how to handle stress because it cannot be avoided. \ The stress response is a natural and healthy response to perceived threats, b

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Punish Or Protect - Fat's Emotional Job

Your weight problem is not an accident. All of your diet and exercise attempts fail as soon as you stop working them precisely because neither diet nor exercise programs address the underlying cause, and that cause is based in how you feel about yourself. Either you want to punish yourself or ...

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Learning How to Fantasize

What would your life be like if you did not have the ability to create fantasies? What if Obama never allowed himself to imagine what it might be like to be President? Or if Bolt couldn't imagine beating a world record? Or if Tiger never dreamt of shooting consecutive (significantly) sub-par rounds in major tournaments

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Test Your Hypnotizability

With the field of hypnosis becoming increasingly respected and accepted amongst the medical profession as well as the self improvement movement more and more people are happy to try hypnotherapy for themselves. One question often pops up in peoples’ minds though before they are willing to put their time and effort into the practice, “am I hypnotizable?”. It’s an understandable worry as learning self hypnosis takes a lot of time and energy while paying for a hypnothera

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Integrating Hypnosis, NLP & Mindfulness

There has been increasing publicity and acceptance of Mindfulness meditation in the public and medical domains. This to me is a great step forward. As I shall further explain in this article I see the combination of hypnotic processing with NLP skills and Mindfulness as a further evolution of self empowerment that will

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Hypnosis and Gene Expression

A turning point in Science and our approach to the human body occurred in 1953 when Watson and Crick discovered the double helix structure of DNA. DNA consists of four base chemicals called nucleotides: adenine, guanine, cytosine and thymine that reside on the inner surface of two parallel sugar and phosphate rails. DN

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Binaural Beat Sound Therapy For Alcoholism

You CAN quit drinking, and you take your life back from alcohol addiction. You can regain your health, have peace of mind, and gain the confidence you need to do the things you really want to do. Simply lay back, close your eyes, and relax; a healthier, happier, longer life can be as easy as that, with binaural beat se

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Hypnosis Therapy- A Revolutionary Way of Changing Ones’ Life

Yes! Everything that you ever want to be can be possible. The impossible fears, the self doubting, the negative thoughts can be undone and you don't have to spend thousands on self-help books or self empowerment seminars because it can all be done through hypnosis therapy. The only thing that stops any person is achieving their full-grown potential is their self. A person's mind is so powerful that it can either be their best or worst asset. This is where hypnosis therapy com

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Circle of Excellence

Circle of Excellence "Anchoring" is the bread and butter of NLP. It's a technique for capturing and triggering feelings within ourselves. In business, would it be useful to feel flowing confidence on demand? Motivation? To feel persuasive and articulate? Learn an easy process, right here, right now to choose and manife

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The Importance of Hypnosis in Everyday Life

When people often hear about hypnosis, they become skeptical. Well, we can't really blame them for there are so many bad myths and misconceptions about the idea of hypnosis as a whole. But truth is we come across the process of hypnosis everyday in our lives. We just don't realize how hypnosis helps us in almost all aspects positively. Some of you may want to know the reasons that make hypnosis important. Well, you are just about to find out the true essence of hypnosis in ou

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How To Cure Carcinophobia With Hypnotherapy

Carcinophobia, the fear of cancer, is among the most widespread phobias, and it's not hard to see why. No one wishes to suffer from cancer or see someone they love suffering from the disease. Although we all want to avoid getting sick, people with carcinophobia have an extremely high amount of fear that frequently take

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Quit Smoking without Withdrawal Symptoms

Every week I help people quit smoking successfully without the withdrawal symptoms generally associated with quitting. Symptoms such as uncontrollable cravings, headaches, weight gain, irritability, and many more are caused by a war that is raging inside the mind of the smoker. \ It begins ...

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Can Hypnosis Help With Depression?

The article “Hypnosis in Treating Symptoms of Major Depression” by Michael Yapko was recently republished in the Australian Journal of Clinical Hypnotherapy & Hypnosis after having appeared in the American Journal of Clinical Hypnosis. The article outlines some of the current treatments available for depression and

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Do You Want to Stop Jumping To Conclusions?

There is much evidence these days of people rushing into things without taking sufficient time to think. The consequences are usually not too detrimental, although sometimes the effect is less than pleasing. I know myself that I have a rather short fuse when I encounter answering systems which leave you dangling for

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Does Hypnosis Work For Alcoholism?

Hypnotherapy or hypnosis may or may not be an effective treatment for people with drug or alcohol problems. The main success factors are one, the extent to which the patient is receivable for hypnosis and two, to what degree the patient is willing to do what it takes to quit alcohol. So, it is impossible to generalize an issue like this. The success of hypnosis, without doubt varies from person to person. nnCan Hypnosis Treat Alcoholism Successfully?nnTo be honest, there hasn

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Hypnosis Treatments For Agoraphobia

Out of all the phobias in existence, agoraphobia is one of the most crippling of all. The stems from a deep fear of unfamiliar or potentially uncomfortable situations, and can grow to the point where a sufferer becomes a shut-in. If you suffer from agoraphobia, you shouldn't let this condition dominate you. You can lea

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How White Noise Can Help You

Before we begin, I'll briefly explain to you what white noise actually is. White noise contains all the frequencies that the human ear can hear, and are played at the same time randomly together. There are literally thousands of different tones being played at the same time. You cold think that this would sound chaotic

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Signs of Depression

Signs of Depression When searching for specific signs of depression, it is important to understand that it cannot be defined as "one-size-fits-all." It has long been known that women are much more prone to be depressed than men, and that the specific causes of female depression and the diagnosis of its symptoms are oft

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What Exactly Is Hypnosis?

Hypnosis is a natural state of physical relaxation and mental focus during which our conscious mind is bypassed so that our subconscious can receive positive suggestions to help us achieve our goals. The Subconscious Mind is the part of our brain that controls 80% of how we think, feel, and behave. When we are in hypno

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So, You Think You Can't Be Hypnotized?

Most people who say they can’t be hypnotized don’t really understand what hypnosis is. Take Joe, for instance. He had been suffering from insomnia for years. When he came into my office, he was skeptical about whether hypnosis could help. He said he didn’t think he could be hypnotized, but that ...

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Nine Perceptions for Creating Abundance

This article can help you understand some core ideas behind the law of attraction so that you can be more successful in creating abundance for yourself. While much information has been written about the steps for participating in successful manifestation, some key elements that are less explored have to do with our att

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Advanced Techniques in Past Life Regression

Past Life Regression is a very flexible tool in the hands of the experienced practitioner. Advanced techniques, stemmed from basic regression work, can help to solve quickly and efficiently a large array of problems, touching many different areas of our lives from spiritual to psychological and even physical.

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Using NLP To Kick The Smoking Habit

If you are trying to quit smoking cigarettes, you know how challenging it is to crush this harmful habit. However, it is possible, and half of all adult smokers are able to succeed in quitting smoking forever. Many smokers succeed in quitting smoking cigarettes by replacing them with new, ...

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No Motivation to Exercise?? Its All in the Mind!

You know that you should be exercising, you know how good it is for you, you know how much better you feel when you do it. WHY CAN'T YOU JUST DO IT!! How many times have you stuck to an exercise program for a few weeks or maybe even a few months and just started to really feel and see the results and then you stop? It

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Hypnotic Words Enhance Personal Development

Hypnotic words aid not only in personal development, but also in success of an individual. Hypnosis is a naturally occurring phenomenon that cannot be controlled. Success in life is an all-round term where an individual should achieve his or her set goals and strive to develop on a personal basis. This article highlights major hypnotic words that really benefit you if you incorporate them in your vocabulary while striving to apply them. Most people strive to enrich their voca

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Good Relationships Make You a Better Person

Human beings do not exist in an individual vacuum any more than the other species of animal or bird who live on this planet. We are social in nature and our basic and primary instinct of survival tells us that we need a mate in order to fulfill that very task. And as a matter of day to day survival we know that we need

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Anxiety! Don't Let it Take Over Your Life

‘I don’t know what to do anymore’, ‘I see no way forward’, ‘I feel rubbish’, ‘I hate feeling this way’, ‘I have no control over how I feel’, ‘I didn’t use to be like this-I hate my life’, ‘why’s this happening to me’, ‘negative thoughts keep on running in my mind and I can’t stop t

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free self hypnosis downloads

Free Self Hypnosis DownloadnnThe UK’s two leading Hypnotists, Richard MacKenzie and Terry Doherty are making another first in the world of Personal Development and Hypnotherapy. The pair have launched easyTrance.com, which is a site that millions all over the world are expected to visit and download a FREE Hypnotherapy Download that they have compiled and is part of their easyTrance Range.nnAuthor of Self-Change Hypnosis Richard MacKenzie said, “I think that easyTrance.co

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NLP Can Help Break The Nail Biting Habit

Skin picking, hair pulling and nail biting are all related behaviors. Skin picking, hair pulling and nail biting are labeled as Obsessive-Compulsive Disorders. People who bite their nails often keep their hands in their pockets. People who bite their nails often feel social embarrassment and ...

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Overcoming Self-Sabotage

Self-sabotage can be sneaky. It's deceptive and challenging to recognize. It is made up of fear and anger and can have many layers. What have you witnessed about your own sabotaging actions and emotions? How do they control you, paralyze you and poison you? How can you begin to heal and ...

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Can Subliminal Audio Messages Work for You

People often debate the effectiveness of hypnosis, NLP or subliminal messaging. Some even dispute that one or all of these techniques work at all. So it is only natural to be skeptical and ask yourself if listening to audio recordings can benefit you in any way. \ What are subliminal messages? \ For those

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A Case Study Involving The Use Of Hypnotherapy For Weight Control

Introductio Mark came to see me with a presenting issue of weight. He felt he was 3 stone overweight due to what he described as his ‘voracious’ appetite. He was also vegan and was always hungry. At the weekends his two young boys would stay over and he would have to cook separate food for them which he would invariably eat the remains of before sitting down to a huge meal of his own. Throughout the day he constantly picked and snacked on french bread, crisps and nuts, drink

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Control Pain with Hypnosis

Chronic pain can be debilitating, and even pain that isn't lasting can severely impact our quality of life. For this reason, the ability to control pain with hypnosis has come into the public eye a great deal recently. Many of us live with pain every day. Arthritis, fibromyalgia, and depression are just a few chronic d

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10 Tips to help You Stop Smoking

Smoking is considered both a habit and an addiction. The good news is that if you can go for three days without a cigarette you have beaten the addiction to nicotine. The nicotine takes approximately seventy two hours to leave your body no matter how long you have been smoking or how many cigarettes per day you usually

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The Unconscious vs. the Subconscious

When we talk about hypnosis or hypnotherapy, we often hear the terms subconscious mind or unconscious mind. It’s become clear to me that there is some degree of confusion over the meaning of the terms, and the difference between the two. n It bears clarifying where the terms came from and how ...

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Swimming With Dolphins Hypnosis Script

Here is a script I have written that helps the patient to relax. This session takes the patient on a journey to the sea, to swim with dolphins. The patient may take many different benefits from this session, it is often quite a personal experience. Often patients benefit from feeling calmer and more relaxed, and gain s

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Famous Hypnotists Throughout History

I am sure that most of you know what hypnosis is. For those that don’t – it is a natural process that allows you to relax and enter a state in which you will accept suggestions much more easily, so that you can use those suggestions to improve your life. \ I would like to talk about a few hypnotists that made

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Hypnosis Can Help With Motion Sickness

Hypnosis is well know for it’s effectiveness in treating many things such as weight loss, smoking, stress, IBS, phobias etc. It is also very effective at treating motion sickness. This is great because it removed the need for any drugs, or other potions that have side effects. How does hypnotherapy help with this? It

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Yoga And Its Benefits

The aim of a spiritual path is to raise our consciousness to the point of allowing us to directly perceive the spiritual dimension. To be spiritual means to recognize one's spirituality and recognize the transcendental essence of ourselves and others. It also means to see that we are all connected to God and to respect

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The Five Stages To Hypnotize Somebody

There are five stages that need to be carried out to effectively hypnotize someone... 1) Induction - This is where the willing victim is put into a state of mind where their sub (or un) conscious is paying more attention than their conscious is. This means that the person will not only be more susceptible to your commands but also because their conscious mind isn't paying attentions they won't even remember it! Induction is typically done by making the participant concentrate

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Hypnosis for OCD

OCD hypnosis – ok, enough of that but you get the point OCD can be a very, very big problem for anyone who has it. There are few mainstream treatments for OCD and they only suppress the disorder. Meaning they don’t actually treat the OCD, hypnosis however can not only suppress the condition but actually it can get rid of it.rn rnHow does OCD hypnosis work? Hypnosis for OCD works just like any other hypnosis, if you have OCD it is probably because at some point when you we

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Animals and the Afterlife

More and more often, while channelling, psychics meet the spirits of departed animals who had been dearly loved by their clients. They are there with their human departed ones, without any difference between them at all, sending their love and affection. The fact that these encounters are now happening more and more fr

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Make Use of Weight Loss Hypnosis to Lose Weight Fast

Has it ever occurred to you that you can possibly utilize self hypnosis as your tool for your weight concerns?|To alleviate you of your weight problems, has it ever occurred to you that you could make use of self hypnosis? If ever you have, then perhaps your are not the sole individual who is assuming that. In point of fact, there are a lot of people all around the planet who have either been interested in the process while they are deciding to lose weight, or have by now mad

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Do Hypnosis Downloads Actually Work?

For many people their first experience of the healing side of hypnosis is through downloadable material like MP3s. Do these hypnosis downloads really work though? If you’ve any interest in the personal development movement, it’s probable that at one time or another you will have taken a peek at the incredible selection of hypnosis downloads available on the web. The selection is truly overwhelming with many hypnotherapy businesses each offering hundreds of their own brand

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The Power of a Suggestion

Does anyone have a suggestion? \ If so, put it in the suggestion box. \ The subconscious mind is like a suggestion box. Each day, it takes in hundreds of subtle suggestions, some positive, some negative, placed there by ourselves and others. Unfor-tunately, the greater number of these tend to be negative, and

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Self Hypnosis for Managing Pain Naturally

Pain can be a productive messenger when we need protection, but when it is perpetuated and reinforced by negative emotions such as anger, guilt, hopelessness, fear and anxiety, it becomes self-perpetuating. Pain creates negative emotions, negative emotions produce more tension, and tension produces pain. The hypnothera

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Using NLP & Hypnosis for Pain Relief

Recent discoveries into a very interesting illusion that reduces arthritic pain have been made. Researchers at the University of Nottingham in the UK discovered, by chance, that there was a major reduction in pain if a person suffering from arthritic pain put their hand into a simulator wired to a computer that project

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The Joys and Benefits of Hunger

Most of us experience hunger as anything but joyful. When pangs of hunger strike, most of us experience them as the enemy. Often hunger makes us confused, tired, and irritable. Worst of all; hunger pains can lead us to overeat, or to eat sweets and other junk food. Under the dire influence of hunger, we fear we will lo

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How does change happen?

I have had the privilege of learning to look outside the box. I would like to share this amazing tool that I have learnt which can and will change your life forever. Over the last 5 years my life changed dramatically. If you think about your current lives, most of you will notice a routine of how and when you do things

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Why Diet and Exercise Alone Won't Work!

Why did you create TruSage and how does it work? Dr. A: I created TruSage because almost everyone knows what they should do but they have not been able to make themselves do what they know they should – specifically as it relates to losing weight and keeping it off. When it comes to losing weight and other goals, i

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Hypnosis Without Trance

When people first hear about waking Hypnosis they are kind of thrown for a tailspin. People usually think of Hypnosis as something where you are sleeping and you are totally unconscious. This is not the case. With waking Hypnosis you can get all of the same Hypnotic phenomenon while a person has their eyes open. There

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Does Hypnosis Work For...?

Does hypnosis work? Well, that depends on what you want to use it for. This article will help you cut through the marketing hype and find out what issues hypnosis really helps. The information in this article is based on a review of current mainstream scientific research. Does Weight Loss Hypnosis Work? Yes, it does help long-term, sustained weight loss. The study "Hypnotic Enhancement of Cognitive-Behavioral Weight Loss Treatments" investigated the question does weight loss

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Hypnosis Stops Sleep Walking in its Tracks

Sleep walking is a sleep disturbance in which a person walks in their sleep. T child is affected by this disorder, parents usually use infant monitors to keep children safe. To end the worry and increase restful sleep, hypnosis is often used. Hypnposis is pleasant for the person receiving it. When a hypnotist works wit

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Turn your New Year Resolution into Real Results

A resolution is a goal, the aim is to help you to improve yourself, perhaps feel better about life or achieve a dream. Unfortunately, each year millions of Resolutions are made and broken. Millions of us treat a resolution as a wish…hoping it will happen….but it never does. Today I’m going to share with you the s

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Angels with Dirty Faces

Isn’t it great to be alive? I have just come back from Coventry, where I was born and raised. I went because it was my uncle Josey’s 70th birthday. He left County Mayo fifty years ago but, fair play to him, you’d never know that to listen to him. His accent remains the same, and the simple country philosophy and

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How To Overcome Agoraphobia

One of the most debilitating things of all must be to suffer from agoraphobia. To not be able to go out and walk around freely, or to just pop to the shop to buy a pint of milk or simply cross a street makes life very, very difficult. People who suffer from agoraphobia are affected in varying degrees. For some the anxi

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Sound Therapy For Anxiety Symptoms

You may understand, anxiety is a part of the instinctive \"fight or flight\" reaction, anxiety is the body's natural response to danger. Anxiety is not always a bad thing; anxiety can keep us focused, alert, motivate us to action, and to find solutions to our problems. But if anxiety is overwhelming and constant, or wh

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From Priestess to Prostitute

In the deep profound dark-blue sky of my professional and personal memory, Minna is a precious gem sparkling like a star, just like her dark, deep and bright eyes. When I first met Minna, it was a tradeshow event. We started to talk and she expressed her interest in a past life regression, hopefully to address her over

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Breaking the Worry Cycle

Suppose someone invited you to spend time today clasping the positive and negative terminals of your car battery – just for the pain of it. Just so you can feel the jolt and watch the shower of sparks. I doubt there would be many takers. The shock would ruin your day, and possibly your battery. ...

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Hypnosis and Hypnotherapy-How They Work

As a certified practitioner of hypnotherapy, I am often asked if I will be able to “put someone under” which speaks to the misconceptions that many people still hold with regard to hypnosis and hypnotherapy. Some people fear the idea that I might have total control over their minds and bodies and approach hypnosis

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Bodybuilding And Hypnosis

Building muscle is just as much a mental activity as it is physical. The mind controls the body. If your mind does not want to go through hard and heavy workouts, your body will not want to either. You will end up solely going through the motions and training without the intensity required for maximum gains.

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What is Life Between Lives Regression?

There are those who believe that before we came into this physical body, we were part of the energy and love that exists in the spirit world. We were souls that had access to the limitless love and knowledge that's available in that realm. But we eventually made a decision to come back into the physical world to experi

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Hypnosis and Healing the Trauma of Sex Abuse

Hypnosis as a professional practice has been used for most trauma-based healing processes and counseling therapy, but it has grown popular lately because it is used in the healing process of victims of sex abuses. Because of fear and the controversy surrounding hypnosis as a practice, first time clients should be given

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Don’t Panic! - Panic Attacks Explained

Don’t Panic! - Panic Attacks Explained What is a panic attack? It is normal, natural and common to get panicky from time to time. You may be late for work, think you can hear a burglar downstairs, or be ready to sit an exam. These feelings are normal and pass fairly quickly. They are simply down

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Thirty Seconds Towards Quick Hypnotherapy

There are lots of ways in which to bring on a tranquil, unstrained state of mind, in which the body is still, and the alert thoughts are simply placed away for a short time because the unconscious mind considers a far more prominent function, in addition it permits the therapeutic cognitive processes which have been natural in each of us to become active. This particular frame of mind, known as the hypnotic condition is very merely generated by simply; - Focusing on someone

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Subliminal Audio Sessions. Do They Work?

Subliminal audio's are usually recordings which contain audible music with hidden suggestions interwoven within them. The idea is that the conscious mind listens to the music, whilst the hidden suggestions are absorbed by the subconscious mind. How does this work? \ How subliminal mp3s are made

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The Myths and Truths about Positive Thinking

Why we are failing to develop a positive attitude and the key to happiness still eludes us.r We keep hearing about the importance of the power of positive thinking. All motivational gurus tell us that being positive is an essential to our success and finding happiness. It is necessary for our daily stress management. T

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What is Integrative Hypnotherapy

Many people ask me how I work as an Integrative Hypnotherapist and although this is a simple question it is not an easy one to answer. The reason being is that as an Integrative Hypnotherapist, I seek to understand the various approaches and incorporate these in a way which resonates and fits in with the client's way o

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Changes Starts Within: The Art of Self- Hypnosis

Changes Starts Within: The Art of Self- Hypnosisr By Daniel Scott Rose www.advancedcarehypnosis.com The thought of this write- up is to inspire you to seize an achievement on building the life you wish for and to present some essential way on how to make it possible. If you're not at ease with some aspects of the life you have now, recognize that you have the command to transform it and should remember it must all begin with your belief! Basically, we are aware of the fact t

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The Smart Ass

Isn’t it great to be alive? Life is all about choices. Some are easy. Some are difficult. Often we have no choice in the amount of crap life will throw at us. How we react to, and deal with it, though is definitely our choice. It is not a question of whether we will all face challenges… it’s a matter of when. So

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Quick stress relief tips you can use on the go

Feeling stressed, tired, running around, busy with work and family but no time for you? If this sounds like you keep reading for some quick stress relief you can use on the go. Modern life in a way also equals modern stress. Most people have less time to themselves with work, family, relationships, commuting, friends a

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What Hypnosis is and What it is Not

There are still many unfounded myths about hypnosis which need to be dispelled so that more and more people can take advantage of this powerful and safe way of healing body, mind and spirit. The following points should help all those who approach hypnotherapy for the first time to understand its real nature and appreci

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How To Think Like A Rich Person

Most people answer the question “do you want to be rich” with a resounding YES. But they don’t do anything differently than most of their friends that are not rich, not are anywhere close to becoming rich. \ They simply lead normal lives just like other people, without taking almost any risks, or even if the

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Letting Go Of Emotional Baggage

Sometimes we experience emotional overload and find it difficult to cope. It's impossible to completely wipe your memory clean but what you can do is change your emotional reaction to your memories and circumstances. Emotional baggage can reach a great weight or even enter the category of emotional garbage. If you are

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Free Hypnosis Audio - Is It Any Good?

The saying that the best things in life are free perfectly applies to free hypnosis audio that you can find online. \ They deliver the same punch without the costs associated with regular appointments at the hypnosis clinic. Although they are free, they are just as reliable as most hypnosis programs out there toda

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A Case History Of Using Hypnotherapy For Psoriasis

Introduction Sally was one of the clients in a study I conducted on the effects of Hypnotherapy on Plaque Psoriasis. Having seen various studies on how Hypnotherapy can be very helpful in tackling psoriasis I asked for volunteers on a self-help forum through the Internet. Sally was one of the volunteers that asked to be included. Although she lived a long way from my practise I explained that she would need to see me once a week for 8 weeks. I also explained to her that she

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A Short History Of Subliminal Messaging

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Weight Loss - A Practical Solution

Weight Loss – A Practical Solution \ The human body is designed to tell us when we are hungry and therefore regulate our natural weight, however modern living can seriously ruin this mechanism. \ Many people, during childhood, experience being told to eat up all our meals, even if we are full. We ma

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How Does Hypnosis Work?

It needs to be stressed that in hypnotherapy the client and the hypnotherapist work as a team and only by their combined efforts will they be successful. Some people even say that actually all hypnosis is self-hypnosis because without the intention of the subject, the hypnotist is powerless. With hypnotherapy you will

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Get Beautiful Skin With Hypnosis

It is said that the quality of your skin is a reflection on your inner health. So if you find yourself with skin problems such as acne rosacea, flakiness or psoriasis it may be that you have an internal imbalance. There are many skin creams, scrubs and various other products on the market but these tend to be expensive and ineffective. The reason they don’t work is that they may cover the skin but they don’t treat the internal imbalance. It’s like covering a bruise with

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Love Your Life

Subliminal music means that (usually positive) suggestions and affirmations are hidden in the music, so the music is all we consciously hear. Our subconscious is capable of hearing and remembering everything. Perhaps you've heard of the studies done in hospital operating rooms, where it was ...

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Hypnosis – Homeless Improvement

Best Friend Therapyr By Dr. Steven Roth DMD., CHt Around 2 years ago, I was at McDonald’s late one afternoon when I first met Frank. He was near the front door begging for money. Because of the appearance of his clothes and his personal hygiene he looked as if he had been on the streets for quite some time. To me,

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A Hypnotherapy Case of Thought Form Release

What harm can a 12-year-old girl do to the world? One would think. Before I met David, I’d say none. Generally speaking, a 12-year-old girl is associated with innocence and powerlessness. Unless, maybe, when such a girl is a nanny, having to take care of younger children. r

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Dealing with Grief Using Hypnotherapy

The death of a loved one is always a devastating experience, and no one can be expected to come to terms with it quickly. With our aging population, many Baby Boomers are now caring for aging parents who pass away in their care. Grieving is a natural process that allows us gradually to take in the reality of our new si

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The Essence of Reiki and its Use in Hypnotherapy

The origins of Reiki are controversial and shrouded in mystery. Many claim paternity but it’s more likely that polygenesis played an important role in confusing its origins. In fact, like many other ancient beliefs and healing techniques, we can find traces of pseudo-Reiki techniques all over the word from very early

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Fighting off Negativity

All of my friends know that I really loathe negativity. It is just so terribly destructive. I think for me what adds insult to injury about negativity is that it is in fact unnecessary. The only positive thing that negativity does is to demonstrate the importance of having a positive attitude; a kind of "unless you see

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Case study Hypnotherapy And Anxiety

Introduction Simon came to see me with a presenting issue of anxiety and panic attacks. He said he was unable to eat in front of anybody but his family. He was unable to go out with his mates anymore, even to the pub for a drink. The anxiety increased ten fold if any women were in the group. He had been unable to have a relationship with women for the past 5 years. He noticed anxiety in situations with women from around the age of 11. He also had to start presenting a course

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How to be with anger

Emotions are part of being human; there is no escaping them and as a society we label these emotions as positive or negative. We need to realise that all emotions, the good, bad and the ugly are part of life and is what makes us who we are. A good place to start is to remove the positive and negative labels we attach t

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Do You Need Assistance with a Chakra Opening?

Chakra awakening can be a very controversial topic, with two very opposite trains of thought. The answer may be, positive or negative, depending upon which school of thought you accept. Let's first cover the school of thought that would say yes to helping an inexperienced person to have a Chakra awakening.

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Do Smoking Bans Work?

Do Smoking Bans Really Work? While Smoking Bans have swept across the country over the last few years. Do they really help someone quit? Pueblo, Colorado, passed a municipal law making workplaces and public places smoke-free in 2003 and U.S.

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Hypnosis for Depression

DIAGNOSIS KILLS Hypnosis has been around for as long as consciousness itself, much longer than depression, which is relatively new on the scene. If we are stuck in a mood it is as if we have been hypnotized. When we absorb information, whatever it might be, it is because we have taken it in through a process that is ef

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Using NLP & Hypnosis to Increase Happiness

There have been many recent studies into what happiness means and how to go about consciously creating it. We are regularly told of the “age of austerity” with the implication we are all going to share, not only austerity but a degree of unhappiness as a result. If we buy into this we will. Many studies have found

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Creative Hypnosis: Eva Quit Smoking After Being Asked One Key Question

There are no absolute certainties for a hypnotherapist while working with a client. Clients who request hypnosis for common issues like stopping smoking may need the hypnotherapist to use a creative approach because of their unique personality needs. Some years ago, I was gathering information from Eva, (not her real name) about her smoking habits. And, she let me know in no uncertain terms, that smoking was something that “no one could take away from her”. I have run across

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How the Subconscious Mind Works

Have you ever daydreamed? Have you ever missed an exit off the freeway or taken a wrong turn because your mind wandered somewhere else? Daydreaming is a form of hypnosis. When we chop vegetables for dinner, we can become hypnotized. When I go through my workout routine, I can become hypnotized. I have to keep a pen and

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Why Are You Not Losing Weight?

I noticed something the other day on MSNBC.com relating to weight loss. Various reasons were provided for why so many people fail to lose weight successfully. The biggies all focused in upon ones mental approach to weight loss as opposed to changes of pure habit. r

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Empower Yourself with NLP

Empower Yourself with NLP If you have ever heard the term Neuro-Linguistic Programming (NLP) and its Representational Systems, you probably were intimidated and shied away from further contact! But with just a simple understanding of the process, everyone we encounter in our daily life becomes easier to deal with.

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Eliminate Your Stress with Hypnosis

In today's world, the sad reality is that most people are overly stressed, and very few realize just how helpful hypnosis can be in eliminating that stress. Hypnosis is essentially a very deep form of relaxation. However, because of some incorrect ideas about the process, many people are skeptical or even afraid of hyp

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Diabetes and Stress: 5 EZ To Use Tools

Reducing stress for a person with diabetes is an absolute must. According to medical evidence, stress can increase glucose levels in people with diabetes, making them more susceptible to long-term physical complications such as eye, kidney or nerve disorders. \ In a landmark study, Dr. Richard Surwit, a medical p

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How To Release Negativity

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Six Steps to Unconscious Putting with Golf Psychology

Have you forgotten how good a putter you are? Well, the older they get, the more golfers tend to forget how easy putting really is. They also forget how good they used to putt when they were younger and more carefree. You often hear the golf pundits on television talking about how some or other up and coming young prof

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All Healing Begins Within

Why would I say that all healing begins within? How can that be true? nnPhysically, healing is an automatic response to injury isn't it? If you cut your finger, the body immediately goes into healing mode and repairs the wound in a matter of days. It is something that comes from inside us. What about emotionally and spiritually?nnScience has shown that we consciously perceive at most 10% of what is going on around us. 90% is filed in the subconscious where it influences our t

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About Gastric band Hypnotherapy

If you have an interest in hypnosis or hypnotherapy then you have probably noticed the recent attention that hypnosis gastric band procedures have been receiving. In this article I am going to explain what they are and how they work so well.

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Ending Emotional Eating with Hypnosis

It appears that the various weight loss companies who previously encouraged calorie counting and their own brand of food are now realising the eating is all in the head and are offering various ways to deal with “emotional eating”. Hypnotherapy for weight loss has always gone for the fact that the way we eat is a h

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Myths about Suicide

As we celebrate today the World Suicide Prevention Day, let us revisit the common myths about suicide and reestablish the fact. \ Myth: “People have to be crazy or mentally ill to consider suicide.” \ Fact: Most people all over the world have thought of suicide at one time or another. But most successful

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Weight Loss and Self Hypnosis - Let Go of Your Emotional Baggage

Imagine what it would be like if you could just pass up a temptation like chocolate cake or get rid of those cravings you have for all that fat-laden junk food. Weight loss and self hypnosis go hand in hand when it comes to allowing you to do just that. It will also allow you to accept yourself just as you are. Once you've done that, losing weight and keeping it off forever just naturally follows.nnPretty much everyone knows that overeating is eating emotionally. Putting weig

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What Are Panic Attacks?

It's essential for you to be acquainted with the generally recognized medical meaning of panic and panic attacks. You want to be sure you use the most efficient, safe and fast panic attack treatment available! What Is A Panic Attack? Panic is a severe form of anxiety, which recurs, for no particular reason or circumsta

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Simple Bad Breath Home Remedies You Can Start Using Today

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Stress And Relaxation

The effects of long term stress are not to be taken lightly. Although they cannot always be seen, the effects of stress can lead to serious physical, as well as mental health problems. Managing our stress levels is very important if we wish to remain happy and healthy. Unfortunately this is seldom recognised in our bus

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Selfishly Speaking

I’ve always found this word “selfish” intriguing. It’s such an empty word by itself yet there are so many loaded meanings and emotions to it. An artificial word, yet a powerful label. To be labeled “selfish” is not a nice feeling for many of us so we would do whatever it takes to avoid being labeled as such

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Cure Insomnia Naturally With Hypnosis

Listening to a hypnosis download may prove to be your elusive key to a guaranteed good nights sleep. Myriad medical research supports this fact. There is little worse than going to be feeling tired, if not exhausted, but then finding that sleep eludes you. As you toss and turn you start to feel too hot and then you fin

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Hidden Hypnotists

Whether you are aware or not, you live with aspects of hypnosis almost every day. Hypnosis comes packaged in many shapes and sizes that are seldom, if ever, called hypnosis. There is one hypnotist to the right of you and another to your left. They are your friends and relatives, your neighbours, the people you work wit

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Miscarriage

If you have experienced miscarriage, you know that feeling that keeps nagging you - what did I do wrong? Why did my baby have to die inside me? Unfortunately, there is no reason and yet we upset ourselves, looking for the one alcoholic drink we had before we knew we were pregnant or if life had not been so stressful, m

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A Very Brief History of Hypnosis

Hypnosis is a completely natural state which you experience every day. You experience it when you are 100% focused on one thing, for example when you are focused on your work or exercise, or when you are reading a book. During those times you would experience a state of so called trance, or a mild form of it, to

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From Pain to Pleasure - Hypnosis For Childbirth

What woman doesn’t dream of her baby being born into a calm, relaxed environment? This dream can be a reality using hypnosis for childbirth. You can achieve the birth you want for you baby by using the power of your own mind to control the pain so it is manageable for you as you work with your body to deliver the baby.

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The Power of Your Emotional State

“To be blind is to miss out on so much beauty but most of us waste this valuable gift by only choosing to see negativity.” We all perceive the world through our senses, primarily the Visual – Auditory – Kinesthetic senses. In NLP (Neuro Linguistic Programming) we add in Olfactory (smell) and Gustatory (taste) a

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SAD - When Recurring Unhappiness Gets Out of Control

Are you worried that your bout with wintertime sadness is lasting longer, or is more intense than you have previously experienced? How can you tell whether this is just a short-term issue, or whether you may be facing an actual problem with Seasonal Affective Disorder(SAD)? Should you get counseling? Find out about the

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Not That! This! - The NLP Visual Swish Technique

"Not That! This!" The NLP Visual Swish Technique NLP, Neuro Linguistic Programming, is all about effective communications. Some of those communications are between people, and some are within our own mind. When we clearly communicate and instruct our own unconscious (creative, problem-solving, power mind) in the things

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Can The GI (Glycemic Index) Diet Help You Lose Weight?

The GI diet, based on the Glycemic Index, has recently become very popular, but the GI ranking system has been around since 1981. There have been several books published on the success of the GI diet, but is it really a diet or a lifestyle change? The glycemic index Dr. David Jenkins, from the University of Toronto in

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Peeling the Onion vs. Cutting Out the Core

A few years back…well actually more than a few… I practiced traditional therapy. I used to call it peeling the onion. It took months, even years to slough off layers of denial, misinformation, myths, fears and get to the often forgotten root cause of an issue. Although my clients’ efforts were highly productive,

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Go Within, Release Stress & Change for the Better

You can Release Stress to Change for the Better Now -n Did you know that you already have within you what is required for positive change to occur in your life? You do! By allowing yourself to be more relaxed you are able to go within to find the change that is waiting there for you.n Many of us ...

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5 Minutes To A New, Confident You!

Do you fear public speaking, or work situations such as giving a presentation or negotiating a raise, or even simply approaching an attractive member of the opposite sex? Do you have an overall lack of confidence? This article is for you! Here comes an incredibly easy “mind game” with powerful ...

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Hypnotism for Mind-body Connection

We hear it said that mind and body are not two separate aspects of us, they are connected; yet we keep thinking that we hate this part of our body, we dislike that part of our body. Once I was teaching a course “Self-Hypnosis for Weight Loss”, and I asked participants before we got into the material: “Do you love

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Living Vertically

We are used to this way of assuming, as we were told, that when we are born, we are a blank slate. While we grow, we learn everything from parents, school, community… all outside of ourselves. And based on what the society needs and what’s available, we decide what to do as our “career”. We get married at a cer

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The Inner Mate: Key to Loving Relationships

Perhaps you are single and looking for a love relationship. You might be married and looking for a way to make your relationship work more smoothly for you. Or you might be enduring the heartache of a painful separation. If any of these situations sounds like yours, your Inner Mate could provide the love, security and

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10. The Devine Plan

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When Your Client Just Won't Lose Weight

This article is for anyone who helps others lose weight as a profession. You may be a coach, nutritionist, dietician, personal trainer, nurse, EFT practitioner, doctor, therapist or even a hypnotist. No matter how you implement your program for your clients, I think you’ll find this information helpful. Tears rolled

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But ... What Actually Is Smoking?

The large majority of smokers started smoking when they were very young, because of peer-pressure, in order to feel more grown-up and ‘cool’. Things, however, have changed dramatically in recent years and our society now sees smoking for what it is: a very harmful habit which can lead to a painful and premature dea

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Sound Healing, Hypnosis and Weight Loss

It is a universally known truth, music can affect your mood; it is also well known, mood can also can affect our appetite. Many of us, especially those with a few extra pounds, will often reach for high carbohydrate snacks when we are suffering from anxiety or depression . Doesn't it make sense, then, that certain musi

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The Healing Power of Hypnosis

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Three Principles Of Goal Setting

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Stress Management - Understand the Orgins of Stress

Evolution is an amazing state of human processes and progress. We have evolved into conscious "beings" that are aware of our inner selves, have a sense of right and wrong, have complex brain capabilities, language and communication skills. Yes, despite all of our advancements stress is a by-product of our ancestors and

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What Are Solfeggio Frequencies?

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Using Hypnosis to Increase Self Esteem

Hypnosis has been used for many centuries, although many still debate the process. From the beginning, hypnosis to increase self esteem, stop smoking, and lose weight has been a lifesaver for many people. Often, when other methods fail, people will turn to hypnosis, and often wish they had tried that first. Habits, suc

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What You Don't Know About Manifesting Money

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15 "Must Know" Ways To Lose Weight Fast!

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Why and How self-hypnosis can Help us Achieve Goals?

Are you an avid goal setter? What do they do? You set long-term and short-term goals, and you go about to do things and make the goals happen, right?r Right. Now that life is so simple. What’s left for us to do? More goals? Or nothing else to do? How about we practice meditation?r Now go ahead and close your eyes. Fo

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Frequently Asked Questions On Hypnosis

Here are some common worries and questions that people have on clinical hypnotherapy: - \ Can I be hypnotized? \ Most people can go into a hypnotic trance. The only types of people that cannot be hypnotised are … \ 1. Those suffering from psychosis or a thought disorder \ 2. A person with a low IQ \ 3. A p

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Help To Overcome Claustrophobia

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Visualization And Weight Loss – Does It Really Work?

The surprising fact is that many conditions can be improved by visualization and weight loss is one of them. It works like this: you keep a vision in your mind of how you want your body to look, and subconsciously you will begin acting in a way that will go in that direction. You become much more positive about your bo

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How to Dramatically Skyrocket Your Good Luck

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Therapeutic Questions For Quitting Smoking

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Why Quit Smoking

Why Quit Smoking? Well, simply because you can! Yes, you can quit smoking. Millions of people have stopped after they have realised the ill effects of smoking and seriously deciding to put an end to that self harming habit. I have compiled the following facts and information about smoking, hoping that by reading it Y

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Eating Disorders; A growing epidemic

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Conversational Hypnosis as a Therapy

If you think about hypnosis, surely the first thing that comes to your mind is a person with closed eyes, as if asleep, in an absolute state of relaxation and concentration. However, none of this occurs in the so-called conversational hypnosis, a therapy that has the same purpose as conventional hypnosis (the suggestion of the patient) but differs in technique. Then we tell you the essentials of this discipline. You already know the power of words to influence others. By mean

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Anchoring with NLP

There was some sunshine this weekend while I was writing this! At least here on the sunny south coast of England there was. I went out walking along the sea front with my partner Sara on Saturday morning and it was wonderful; the feeling of sunshine on my face, the smell of the air, the sites of ...

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8 Myths and Misconceptions About Hypnosis

Whether you are learning how to be a hypnotist or thinking about going to a hypnotist/hypnotherapist for help, it is important to have a clear idea of what hypnosis is as well as what it is not. Why? Well, as far as becoming a hypnotist is concerned, you need to be able to quell people's fears about being hypnotized. Many people have common misconceptions about hypnosis that have been fueled by movies (think Manchurian Candidate), stage and comedy hypnosis shows, and various

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Life After Death?

I’ve been volunteering in Palliative Care for almost two years. The idea came as a fascination on death, as up till then I hadn’t personally had a lot of encounters with death. I wanted to be closer to death as I understood it is part of human life, as common and intimate as birth, even though people do not seem to

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Be the poem

One day I was quoting David Carradine on my Facebook – “If you cannot be a poet, be the poem.” Some people were puzzled and asked, “What does it mean?” Likewise, in my ever first Video Blog, I said something like, “You are not a person with wisdom. You are the wisdom.” It seems to be puzzling for some peo

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How Can Hypnotherapy Help People Quit Smoking?

Hypnotherapy is commonly known to be an effective aid to help people permanently quit smoking. This article will give you a bit of background as to what hypnosis is, and show you how it works to help people quit smoking. \ The therapeutic use of hypnosis is known as hypnotherapy. It actually has little in common w

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10 Essential Keys to Emotional Well-Being: Part 2

Emotional well-being is not so mysterious when you can break it down to smaller steps. You can adopt a few new habits and questions some of your old ones to find all the answers you need for more balance and joy. Here are a few pointers, and you can find the first five in Part 1. Essential Key #6 Be grateful. Nothing

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Guide To Self Hypnosis

Hypnosis and especially self hypnosis appear to be growing in reputation because of their high success rates and the accessibility of information on the internet. However it can be tough to know how to start. Here you can learn self hypnosis in nine easy steps. Just like the name suggests self hypnosis is a type of hypnosis where the person hypnotizes their self. By now most individuals are aware of the many positive benefits that hypnosis offers and self hypnosis offers all

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Getting Hypnotized to Stop Smoking - A Thoughtful Overview

Breaking out of an addictive habit is never easy. It is why people struggle so hard to lose weight, be more punctual at meetings or quit smoking. Although having the will power to say ‘no’ is crucial, it is not always enough. Most times, in order to break out of a habit, people will need the willpower to try and stop as well as a little extra push to strengthen their resolve. That’s where hypnosis comes in. In the case of smoking, studies have revealed that a large perc

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How To Look Younger

Although aging is inevitable, you can still significantly reduce the effects of time. We do not have to look old before our time if we do not want to. We can become that well polished vintage car that turns everyone’s head if we so desire. It just takes a few simple lifestyle changes. \ Following these tips may at f

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How To Build Confidence By Standing Tall

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Stress at Work - Cognitive Behavioural Hypnotherapy

Few people who work for a living today will disagree that stress in the workplace is one of life’s major problems. However, whilst ‘stress at work’ is an almost universal complaint amongst today’s workforce, it is worth bearing in mind that the exact nature of workplace stress can vary from person to person. For many, stress comes arises from trying to meet seemingly impossible deadlines and targets. For others, it may be routed in self doubt and lack of confidence in

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What Can Be Done With Hypnosis?

As hypnosis is studied further it is fast becoming a treatment that the public as well as health experts are accepting as legitimate and highly beneficial. Hypnosis is often referred to as hypnotherapy when it is used to make a positive, permanent change in a person. Millions of people worldwide have been treated to quit smoking or lose weight using hypnosis and that is just the tip of the iceberg. There are still some who misunderstand hypnosis though. Frequently this is mer

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Benefits and Uses of Hypnosis

In my last article, I stated that the greatest benefit of meditation may actually be an increase in consciousness. The metaphysicists tell us that everything has consciousness (awareness). Most scientists wouldn’t agree. That’s OK because science likely hasn’t yet developed the tools to accurately measure conscio

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Highly Contagious Skin Parasites

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Your Emotions Are Your "Truth-o-meter"

There are many ways in which one may be deceitful and every single person will have succumbed to its shadowy presence to one degree or another. In a strange and mysterious way we are usually more deceitful to ourselves than we are to others. We have the ability to kid ourselves into thinking that something is right or

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The Psychology of a Confident Golf Swing

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Mysteries of hypnosis

Hypnotherapy is still a mystery to most people. Some people are still scared to go and see a hypnotherapist/hypnotist. Well, I remember a long time ago, my colleagues and I used to smoke and had tried several different methods to quit smoking to no avail. One of my colleague mentioned seeing a brochure about a hypnotis

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The Power of Visualization with Hypnosis

If you're a visual person by nature, you can probably appreciate the power of visualization during hypnosis. When we see things, they become much more real to us than if they are simply described. This is why most hypnotherapists, and self-hypnosis recordings, make good use of visualization, in order to deepen and enha

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Why You Must Manage Your Stress

The effects of long term stress are not to be taken lightly. Stress can lead to serious physical, as well as mental health problems. Managing our stress levels is very important if we wish to remain happy and healthy.

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How To Have Driving Confidence On Unfamiliar Roads

With an increasing number of vehicles traversing the highways of the world a higher degree of driving confidence is required to enable one to step out of their usual comfort zone. To drive on an unfamiliar road can be very daunting to many a driver. Roads and road systems can be very different from one side of a town t

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Reincarnation in the Western World of Today

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Hypnosis to Discover Your True Self Within

For many of us, our true self means our personality. However, for those dedicated to reaching enlightenment through discovering their true self, often with the aid of hypnosis, it means much more. Our true self is known by many names. Depending on your spiritual beliefs, you may call it your soul or your spirit. Others

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Making yourself uncomfortable with NLP

Condoning or Condemning? Keeping things simple can be a comfort. But sometimes comfort does not to move you forward. It doesn't challenge you, or help you to learn new perspectives, and create new possibilities for yourself. I am talking about the assessments we make of others. You ask yourself, “Do I agree with you?

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Being Stalked On Facebook

Being stalked on facebook is not a pleasant experience. I wonder in actual fact how many people have been stalked on facebook? When one thinks about stalking the first scenario which pops to mind is one of a man obsessively following a woman with some sort of physically abusive intent. r

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Making Peace with Yourself

Making Peace with Yourselfr By Dr, Janolyn F Moore, PhD "Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life. Do not be trapped by dogma - which is living with the results of other people's thinking. Do not let the noise of others' opinions drown out your own inner voice. And, most important, have the co

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3 ways to be happier

If you have become used to living with anxiety, fear, depression or unhappiness, then it can be difficult to believe that happiness is possible. But a few simple steps can help to reduce those unwanted feelings and increase your happiness. Don't struggle on your own: Happiness can seem a long way away when you're str

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Hypnosis Facts and Myths | Misunderstandings of Hypnotherapy

Hypnosis is used by many kinds of people all over the world to help them with their problems. It’s not magic and it’s not black-magic. Hypnosis is based on science and understanding two main things: the brain and human psychology. There are some people who have religious reasons for not trying hypnosis, believing that it has something to do with spirits and demons. Nothing could be further from the truth. Hypnosis is a state of mind and actually it’s a state of mind tha

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Conversational Hypnosis And Conventional Hypnosis

Lately, there has been a lot of talk or discussion regarding Conversational Hypnosis. While the principles or policies of hypnosis stand firm, there are 4 things that you might not know about the Conversational method and the way it varies with the more conventional forms of hypnosis. A person not familiar with the complexities or intricacies of being hypnotized may think and conclude that all hypnotic styles and methods are one and the same. Difference #1. Direct Language vs

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